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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
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COVID-19 spread in Germany from a regional perspective
Hübler, Olaf - 2021
This paper investigates the regional differences in the spread of COVID-19 infections in Germany. A machine learning selection procedure is used to reduce variables from a pool of potential influencing variables. The empirical analysis shows that both regional structural variables and regionally...
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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on …
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Vaccines at work
Hoffmann, Manuel; Mosquera, Roberto; Chadi, Adrian - 2020
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses …, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural … field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador, where we modified its vaccination campaign. Experimentally …
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Remittances and portfolio values : an inquiry using Spanish immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2012
Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are...
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Trust and the choice between housing and financial assets : evidence from Spanish households
Attar, Mayssun el; Poschke, Markus - 2010
Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the dominant component of households' portfolios, real estate. In a simple model, we show how the...
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Locus of control and investment in risky assets
Salamanca, Nicolás; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...
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Business education and portfolio returns
Altmejd, Adam; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan - 2024
Using university admission cutoffs that generate exogenous variation in college-major choices, we provide causal evidence that enrollment in a business or economics program leads individuals to invest significantly more in the stock market, earn higher portfolio returns, and ultimately...
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Genetic ability, wealth, and financial decision-making
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the same genetic variants that predict educational attainment independently predict household wealth in...
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Willingness to take risk : the role of risk conception and optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2018
We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of...
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